Opera 9.22 has been released; mostly a bugfix and security release. "We released 9.22 today and it's a recommended security update. There are changelogs for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/UNIX. Bit Torrent also received some nice improvements, so it should be quite a bit faster now."

You're right that it's an inconvenience to "do it the hard way" by downloading and manually installing the update, but come on! I just did it on Ubuntu and it tool me like, 20 seconds, instead of the, I dunno, 15 seconds it'd take on Windows. Big deal!